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Cub Scout Ultimate Sports Belt Loop

Complete these three requirements:

1. Explain the rules of ultimate or disc golf to your leader or adult partner.
2. Spend at least 30 minutes practicing ultimate or disc golf skills.
3. Participate in a game of ultimate or disc golf.

Cub Scouts Tennis Sports Pin

Earn the Tennis belt loop and complete five of the following requirements:

1. Compete in a pack or community tennis tournament.
2. Demonstrate your knowledge of the use and care of the equipment needed to play tennis (rackets, balls, shoes, clothing, and court).
3. Practice for 30 minutes in up to two practice sessions developing forehand techniques through forehand bump-ups with a bounce, partner bump-ups with a target, forehand alley rally, forehand alley rally over a “net,” drop-hit forehand bumps, drop-hit catch in pairs, and toss-hit catch in pairs.
4. Practice developing serving skills for 30 minutes in up to two practice sessions.
5. Explain to your leader or adult partner how to score in tennis.
6. Accurately draw, label, and explain a tennis court layout.
7. Play five games of tennis using U.S. Tennis Association rules.
8. Participate in a tennis skills development clinic.
9. Attend a high school, college, or professional tennis meet.
10. Present to your den or family a report on the history of tennis.

Cub Scout Tennis Sports Belt Loop

Complete these three requirements:

1. Explain the rules of tennis to your leader or adult partner.
2. Spend at least 30 minutes practicing tennis skills.
3. Participate in a tennis game.

Cub Scouts Table Tennis Sports Pin

Earn the Table Tennis belt loop and complete five of the following requirements:

1. Compete in a pack or community table tennis tournament.
2. Demonstrate your knowledge, use, and care of the equipment needed to play table tennis (racket or paddle, table and net, ball, tennis or basketball shoes, and comfortable clothing).
3. Practice 30 minutes in up to two practice sessions developing serving skills.
4. Practice 30 minutes in up to two practice sessions developing your forehand and backhand strokes.
5. Explain to your leader or adult partner how spin affects the bounce of the ball.
6. Accurately set up a table tennis table and net according to USA Table Tennis rules.
7. Play five games of table tennis.
8. Participate in a table tennis skills development clinic.
9. Explain to your leader or adult partner how to score a table tennis game.
10. Participate in a game of doubles table tennis (four people playing in one game, two people per side).

Cub Scout Table Tennis Sports Belt Loop

Complete these three requirements:

1. Explain the rules of table tennis to your leader or adult partner.
2. Spend at least 30 minutes practicing table tennis skills.
3. Participate in a table tennis game.

Cub Scout Swimming Sports Pin

Earn the Swimming belt loop and complete five of the following requirements:

1. Practice the breathing motion of the crawl stroke while standing in shallow water. Take a breath, place your head in the water, exhale, and turn your head to the side to take a breath. Repeat.
2. Learn and demonstrate two of the following strokes: crawl, backstroke, elementary backstroke, sidestroke, or breaststroke.
3. Learn and demonstrate the following floating skills: prone, facedown float, and back float. The purpose of the float is to provide the swimmer the opportunity to rest in the water.
4. Using a kickboard, demonstrate three kinds of kicks.
5. Pass the “beginner” or “swimmer” swim level test.
6. Visit with a lifeguard and talk about swimming safety in various situations (pool, lake, river, ocean). Learn about the training a lifeguard needs for his or her position.
7. Explain the four rescue techniques: Reach, Throw, Row, and Go (with support).
8. Take swimming lessons.
9. Attend a swim meet at a school or community pool.
10. Tread water for 30 seconds.
11. Learn about a U.S. swimmer who has earned a medal in the Olympics. Tell your den or an adult family member what you learned about him or her.
12. Demonstrate the proper use of a mask and snorkel in a swimming area where your feet can touch the bottom.

Cub Scouts Swimming Sports Belt Loop

Complete these three requirements:

1. Explain the rules of Safe Swim Defense. Emphasize the buddy system.
2. Play a recreational game in the water with your den, pack, or family.
3. While holding a kick board, propel yourself 25 feet using a flutter kick across the shallow end of the swimming area.

Cub Scouts Softball Sports Pin

Earn the Softball belt loop and complete five of the following requirements:

1. Compete in a pack or community softball tournament.
2. Demonstrate skill in the following throwing techniques: overhand, sidearm, underhand, and the relay throw.
3. Demonstrate skill in the following catching techniques: fielding a ground ball, fielding a pop-up, catching a line drive.
4. Demonstrate correct pitching techniques and practice for three half-hour sessions.
5. Demonstrate correct hitting techniques, including bunting. Practice for three half-hour sessions.
6. Explain the rules of base running and demonstrate skill in the following sliding techniques: the straight-in slide, the hook slide, and the headfirst slide.
7. Learn and demonstrate base coaching signals.
8. Learn about one defensive position (shortstop, catcher, etc.) and practice at that position for three half-hour sessions.
9. Attend a high school, college, or community softball game.

Cub Scouts Sports Softball Belt Loop

Complete these three requirements:

1. Explain the rules of softball to your leader or adult partner.
2. Spend at least 30 minutes practicing softball skills.
3. Participate in a softball game.

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Cub Scout Sports Pin - Soccer

Earn the Soccer belt loop and complete five of the following requirements:

1. Participate in a pack, school, or community soccer tournament.
2. Demonstrate the skills of passing, collecting, shooting, heading, dribbling, and tackling.
3. Demonstrate skill in goal keeping.
4. Accurately lay out a soccer field for a game.
5. Demonstrate five types of fouls and explain why players should avoid them.
6. Demonstrate how to juggle the soccer ball and keep it from touching the ground for 30 seconds.
7. Play at least two games of Soccer Tennis.
8. Spend at least a total of six hours over several practice periods playing soccer. Keep track of your time on a chart.
9. Join and participate in a soccer team in your community or school.
10. Attend a high school, college, or professional soccer game.
11. Learn about a U.S. Olympic soccer team and report your information to your den.
12. Explain the history of soccer.

Cub Scout Sports Belt Loop - Soccer

Complete these three requirements:

1. Explain the rules of soccer to your leader or adult partner.
2. Spend at least 30 minutes practicing soccer skills.
3. Play a game of soccer.

Cub Scout Sports Pin - Snow Ski and Board Sports

Earn the Skiing belt loop and complete five of the following requirements:

1. Explain the different types of ski lifts, such as a rope tow and “fixed grip” and “detachable” chair lifts.
2. Describe the five universal symbols used to indicate ski trail difficulty.
3. Demonstrate how to hold your position and get up from a fall.
4. Demonstrate how to fall safely to avoid injury.
5. Explain why it is important to protect nature and wildlife while skiing or snowboarding.
6. Practice skiing or snowboarding for at least five hours. You can do this in more than one day.
7. Explain what to do if you see a skiing or snowboarding accident. Discuss the dangers of avalanche.
8. Take a skiing or snowboarding lesson.
9. View a video on skiing or snowboarding.
10. Talk with a member of a ski patrol and learn about his or her position at the ski slope.
11. Learn about an Olympian who competed in skiing or snowboarding and report to your den.

Cub Scouts Sports Belt Loop - Snow Ski and Board Sports

Complete these three requirements:

1. Explain conditioning, clothing, equipment, and planning needed for snow skiing or boarding.
2. Explain “Your Responsibility Code,” the rules of safety and courtesy for the slopes. (See “Your Responsibility Code” at the bottom of this page.)
3. Go skiing or snowboarding. Demonstrate how to stop and turn.

Cub Scout Sports Pin - Skateboarding

Earn the Skateboarding belt loop and complete five of the following requirements:

1. Figure out your skateboard stance—whether you are regular or goofy footed.
2. Demonstrate proper stance, feet positions, knee bending, pushing off, turning, and stopping on flat ground.
3. Using pictures, explain to your den or family the difference between street, skate park, and vertical skateboarding.
4. List five ways skateboarders should be considerate and respectful of other people and their property when they are skateboarding.
5. View a skateboarding video.
6. Attend a pro skateboarder demonstration.
7. Show that you know how to lubricate the bearings and keep your skateboard clean.
8. Apply grip tape to your skateboard.
9. Skateboard at a skate park for 30 minutes.
10. Demonstrate three of the following maneuvers: ollie, nollie, frontside, grab, kickturn, carving.
11. Describe how to determine a safe area to skateboard.

Cub Scout Sports Belt Loop - Skateboarding

Complete these three requirements:

1. Demonstrate to an adult the general rules for safe skateboarding by showing that you know how to wear the proper safety gear.
2. Carefully demonstrate how to fall to help minimize injuries.
3. Practice skateboarding for 30 minutes. This practice may be done in several periods.

Cub Scout Sports Pin - Roller Skating

1. Earn the Skating belt loop and complete five of the following requirements:
2. Participate in a pack or community skating event.
3. Demonstrate how to disassemble and reassemble skates.
4. Explain the proper clothing for roller or in-line skating.
5. Spend at least 15 minutes, on two occasions, practicing warm up exercises before skating.
6. Play a game of roller hockey.
7. Learn and demonstrate two new roller skating skills: forward scissors, forward stroking, crossover, or squat skate.
8. Participate in a roller or in-line skating skill development clinic.
9. Demonstrate how to stop quickly and safely.
10. Demonstrate how to skate backward. Skate backward for five feet.
11. Play a game on roller skates, roller blades, or in-line skates.

The Roller Skating belt loop and pin include roller blading and in-line skating. See Ice Skating for information onhockey, speedskating, and figure skating.

Cub Scout Sports Belt Loop - Roller Skating

Complete these three requirements:

1. Explain ways to protect yourself while roller skating or in-line skating, and the need for proper safety equipment.
2. Spend at least 30 minutes practicing the skills of roller skating or in-line skating.
3. Go skating with a family member or den for at least three hours. Chart your time.

Cub Scout Sports Pin - Physical Fitness

Earn the Physical Fitness belt loop and complete five of the following requirements:

1. Choose a form of exercise, bring your heart rate up to target, and keep it there for 15 minutes. Remember to warm up and cool down slowly.
2. Set up a four-step exercise program. Chart your progress for five days a week for two weeks.
3. Explain the reason for warming up and cooling down before and after each exercise session.
4. Visit a local gym and talk to a trainer about exercises and programs for young people.
5. Participate in some aerobic exercises at least three times a week for four weeks.
6. Build an obstacle course that could include some exercises with jumping, crawling, and hurdles. Time yourself three times to see whether you can improve your time.
7. Swim for a total of an hour over several practice periods, charting your time as you go.
8. Participate for at least three months in an organized team sport or organized athletic activity.

Cub Scout Sports Belt Loop - Physical Fitness

Complete these three requirements:

1. Give a short report to your den or family on the dangers of drugs and alcohol.
2. Practice finding your pulse and counting your heartbeats per minute. Determine your target heart rate.
3. Practice five physical fitness skills regularly. Improve performance in each skill over a month. Skills could include pull-ups, sit-ups, the standing long jump, the 50-yard dash, and the softball throw.

Cub Scout Sports Pin - Marbles

Earn the Marbles belt loop and complete five of the following requirements:

1. Compete in a den, pack, or community marbles tournament.
2. Explain to an adult what lagging is. Demonstrate how to do it.
3. Demonstrate the following shooting techniques: knuckling down, bowling, and lofting (also called plunking).
4. Explain the correct way of scoring for a game of marbles.
5. Play five complete matches of marbles using standard rules.
6. Start a collection of marbles and show it at a den or pack meeting.
7. Write a short report on the history of marbles and share it with your den or family.
8. Explain the rules about shooters.

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Cub Scouts Sports Belt Loop - Marbles

Complete these three requirements:

1. Explain the rules of Ringer or another marble game to your leader or adult partner.
2. Spend at least 30 minutes practicing skills to play the game of Ringer or another marble game.
3. Participate in a game of marbles.

Cub Scouts Sports Pin - Kickball

Earn the Kickball belt loop and complete five of the following requirements.

1. Demonstrate the following kickball skills: pitching, kicking, base running, catching, throwing.
2. Explain the rules of base running.
3. Describe the basic defensive positions in kickball (pitcher, catcher, infielder).
4. Draw a kickball field to scale; include the starting defensive positions.
5. Report to your den or family about the similarities between the rules of baseball and kickball.
6. Explain the role of being the captain of a kickball team.
7. Play five games of kickball using basic rules.
8. Help set up a kickball field for a game.
9. Serve as a referee for one game of kickball.
10. Participate in a pack, school, or community kickball tournament or a supervised kickball league.